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Adding bed/wig data to dalliance genome browser

I have been playing a bit with the dalliance genome browser. It is quite useful and I have started using it to generate links to send to researchers to show regions of interest we find from bioinformatics analyses.
I added a document to my github repo describing how to display a bed file in the browser. That rst is here and displayed in inline below.
It uses the UCSC binaries for creating BigWig/BigBed files because dalliance can request a subset of the data without downloading the entire file given the correct apache configuration (also described below).
This will require a recent version of dalliance because there was a bug in the BigBed parsing until recently.

Dalliance Data Tutorial

dalliance is a web-based scrolling genome-browser. It can display data from
remote DAS servers or local or remote BigWig or BigBed files.
This will cover how to set up an html page that links to remote DAS services.
It will also show how to create and serve BigWig and BigBed files.

Note

This document will be using hg18 for this tutorial, but it is applicable to
any version available from your favorite database or DAS .

Comments

Thanks for the post. I was wandering how Dalliance compares to JBrowse? I'm new to genome browsers and I can see that both of these tools have a great potential in becoming really useful tools for personal genomics.

@Sarkis, I'm not much of a perl user and definitely not gmod, so I don't know much about jbrowse. If you're into gmod, i think jbrowse is probably a great choice.

I think that the code in dalliance is a bit hard to extend (I looked into it some--I reported and fixed the bug in the BigBed parsing) so it's not impenetrable.But, it does give you a nice browser for both numerical and feature data and allows you to access remote servers.Basically all you need is a web-server and a javascript and you're ready to go with dalliance. With jbrowse, you'll need quite a bit more, I suspect.

@casbon What kind of callbacks are you after? Dalliance should do sensible things with LINK elements in DAS data. We don't currently have a way of linking from bigbed data but it's a fairly straightforward extension and something we can certainly implement quickly if there's demand.

Or do you mean a way of channeling feature-click events to a fragment of javascript provided by the page in which Dalliance is embedded? This is currently missing from our embedding API, but again wouldn't be too hard to add, and if you've got a use case I'd be very interested to discuss.

Nice post. Actually though, you don't need to configure a webserver to use dalliance if you just want to browse locally on your own machine. Just open the test.html file directly in your favour browser. Dalliance can access indexed binary files directly from your hard disk as well as those on remote webservers and DAS sources. Tim

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